Piling-table for metal sheets.



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Enum; TABLE Fon METAL sHEETs.

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FILING TABLE FOB METAL SHEETS.

(Application led Jan. 12, 1899.)

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l ,SAMUEL S. VAOOD', OF WELLSVILLE, OHIO. I

PILING-TABLE FOR METAL SHEETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 631,841, dated August 29, 1899.

Application filed January 12, 1899. Serial No. 701.928. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:-

Beit known that I, SAMUEL S. WOOD,.a citizen of the United States, residing at Vellsville, in the county of Columbiana and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Catching, Packing, or Piling Tables for Metal Plates or Sheets; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a catching, packing, or piling table for receiving and forming even or regular piles of metal plates or sheets as they are delivered from the rolls or rolltrain; and the object is to provide a device ot' this character for expeditiously and economically handling the plates or sheets at this stage of their manufacture.

To this end the invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the several parts of the device, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate the same parts of the invention. f

Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved catching, packing, or piling table, showing its position with relation'to the rolls and also showing one sheet or plate in dotted lines in position on the table. Fig. 2 is a transverse section with a pile of plates or sheets in position on the table. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the bed of the table and the pile of plates or sheets tilted to alevel or horizontal position and with the knee thrown backward out of contact with the alined edges of the plates.

1 1 denote the parallel bed-rails, of which there may be a number to correspond to the length of the table, and their upper edges are formed with transverse bearing-notches 2 and 3 to receive the longitudinal parallel bearingrails 4 and 5, fixed on the under side of the table-bed 6, a third or auxiliary rail 7 being ixed to the under side of the table-bed to act as a brace or stiffener for the table-bed. The upper face of the bed is provided with alongitudinal rail 8, which is intersected byaparallcl series of transverse rails 9 9.

The parallel walls of the longitudinal rail and the transverse rails are provided with a graduated series of transverse alined orifices 10 10 to receive a stationary or adjustable bolt, pin, or rivet 11, on which the heel 12 of the foot 13 of the gage-knee 14 is fulcrumed. The outer end of .the foot of the knee 14 is formed with a depending toe 15.

" 16 denotes a removable or stationary pin 'which rests upon the upper edges of the walls of the rail to form a rest for the free end of the foot and support the arm 17 of the knee at a right angle or any desired angle to the table-bed. In the case of the side knees this pin 16 is prevented from sliding down the in-v clined face of the rails by the toe 1,5, and in the case of the end knee the pin is provided with an enlarged head a, which rests against the rail 8 to prevent the pin from sliding under the knee.

I do not confine myself to the adjustable and removable knees, for, if desired and when an advantage, a stationary or fixed knee can be used.

If desired', the table can be inclined in one or more directions at the same time-for instance, by placing the bed-rails 1 1 on dierent levels. This will sometimes be found an advantage.

. This table may be conveniently placed Wherever' it is desired to pile up a quantity of sheets, and in Fig. 1 I have shown it placed near the rolls 18, from which a sheet or plate is taken by an attendant and drawn along the inclined face of ther/table until the forward end of the sheet comes in contact with the end knee, and upon the sheet or plate being released it slides by gravity down the inclined face of the table until its lower edge rests against the side knees. The succeeding sheets are treated in the same manner until a sufricient pile has been formed on the table. The table is now tilted to a horizontal position, as shown iu Fig. 3, and the pins 1G removed from under the outer ends of the kuees,which allows that end of the knee to fall so that its toe 15 rests upon the lower face of the rail. This throws the arm 17 away from the contiguous alined edges of the sheets or plates. The sheets or plates now remain on the table in a pile with their contiguous edges alined IOO l. In a table of the class described, the oom-v bination With the ixed bed-rails, of a table fuierumed on said rails and adapted to be tilted from a horizontal to an inclined position, and aseries of gage-knees longitudinally and laterally adjustable on the Working face of said table, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a table of the class described, the combination with lthe tilting bed, and a series of rails projecting above the face of the table to receive the sheets or plates, of a series of knees adjustably secured to said rails, sub` stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In a table of the class described, the coinbination with the notched bed-rails, of the table-bed, the longitudinal parallel bearingrails fixed to the under side of said bed and adapted to support the table in either a hori-v zontal or inclined position, the longitudinal and the transverse rails fixed to the upper face of said table-bed, and a series Aof gageknees adjustably secured to said longitudinal and transverse rails, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

SAMUEL s. Woon.

lVtnesses:

W. M. THEOBALD, A. J. DEMMLER. 

